‘Firestarter’ Lead Ryan Kiera Armstrong & ‘Evil Dead’ Alum Shiloh Fernandez Among Cast To Join Nicolas Cage Western ‘The Old Way’
via Deadline.com • By Andreas Wiseman
EXCLUSIVE: Firestarter reboot lead Ryan Kiera Armstrong and Evil Dead alum Shiloh Fernandez are among cast to have joined Nicolas Cage in action-western The Old Way, which we revealed last week.
In The Old Way, Cage stars as Colton Briggs, a former gunslinger who now runs a general store and lives quietly with his family. When a gang of outlaws murders his wife in cold blood, Briggs returns home to find his world burning. He unearths his sidearm and saddles up with an unlikely partner: his twelve-year-old daughter. The project marks Cage’s first ‘traditional’ western.
The posse saddling up with Cage also includes Justified’s Nick Searcy, The Call Of The Wild’s Abraham Benrubi, and screen veteran Clint Howard (Apollo 13). Kerry Knuppe, Adam Lazarre-White and Craig Branham have also been cast.
The film, which is now in post-production, is directed by Acts of Violence helmer Brett Donowho. Carl W. Lucas wrote the script.
Capstone Pictures and Intercut Capital are co-financing and producing the picture. Capstone’s Christian Mercuri is executive-producing alongside David Haring. R. Bryan Wright and Micah Haley are producing for Intercut Capital alongside Sasha Yelaun, Robert Paschall, Jr. and Johnny Remo of Skipstone Pictures. Donowho and Cage’s Saturn Films are also producing. Fred Roos, Carl W. Lucas, Joshua Bunting and Mehrdad Moayedi are executive producing.